IT is mindsetting not physical

IT is not physical you are not able to: feel, smell, make fotographs, or take a walk around it. The normal human environment is missing.

To get it more human we could compare the IT with the construction of buildings. Mostly the same words are used, architecture design build accept.
Let us do the comparison of virtual IT-world (clicks) with the real world handling with bricks

Starting which this comparison, there are attitude differences. I will exaggerate it.

the related professions needed years of study and education to become good in their job

is something for nerd&acutes, a 8 year old boy can do the job fine. Experience is not very useful

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credits of success is to the client/sponsor name common to wine, ships , big buildings

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The builders working on the new house don&acutet live there. They sleep eat and have family in a fully operational house (production) that is ready.
The office of the builders, contractor, is ready and housing a lot of staff like architects. The contractors business (there is a business owner) is doing the builders job thereby making profits (production)

In the IT all things are bits&bytes. Sometimes it is claimed all phases (develop/test/acceptance/production) should be equal to one person.
Getting this to bricks: The builders should live in house that is not ready. The contractors office should only exist in blue-prints.
These contradictions are not causing some pain as people are still finding workarounds.

Design &amp Architecture

Building Permit

bricks

clicks

Client/sponsor is leading

Staff IT is inventing plans

Client is doing first research

Tossing for chances

Legalizing a first thing

Legalizing ? Can it done for free?

The first thing to get clear:

Does the plan have the opportunities to get realized?

Is there enough capital for the plan in reservation?

no technical challenges that are possible blocking?

Are there architects and contractors willing to do the job?

all legal affairs are not blocking? Having the building permit .....

Architect

bricks

clicks

Client/sponsor request multiple offerings

Architect IT is inventing plans

Client gives his requirements

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Client asking multiple contractors

In the public area mandatory (Europe). Rumors with unclear requirements in abuse

Client evaluates offerings

--?--

An architect can start with the first thing to get clear:

Make a more detailed plan what is delivered in the end. Make an price assumption with this plan

The contractor recalculates everything and makes a pricing

During the project of the building the architect and contractor will have solve unforeseen issues. This must be planned

Machinery has come on the building site. Fully operational and delivering hard work for -production-. No one is expecting machinery in phase development. Machinery that is not working yet.
There are companies offering support in case of outage (failing to deliver production)of machineries. A car with a replacement is standing by.

In the IT all things are bits&bytes. Sometimes it is claimed all phases (develop/test/acceptance/production) should be equal to one person.
The developer has to work with development tools (machinery). with that claim it is actually saying: the developer should use tools not ready to be used.
This contradiction is not causing some pain as people are still finding workarounds.

The people working at the site are needing utilities. These are provided on temporarily implementations using as much as possible the commodity services.

Interior

Furniture

The interior , furniture is one of te last things to do. It is the image of the working area.

The contractor for the building normally does not these steps. It will be handled sepately

get to opeational life - brick - clicks

This is an interesting segregation that can becompared to IT where hardware (building utilities as infrastructure) is becoming commodity.
The real question will be supporting the business. Also this level can become commodity. The -AAS buzzwords trying to get to bricks. IAAS Infrastructure As A Service - More or less common in bricks world. Utilities are rarely implemented local anymore, or it should be in the outer areas. PAAS Platform As A Service - That is the delivering of a building, owned leased ar rented are variations on the theme DAAS Desktop As A Service - All internal furniture and other not your &quotcore business&quot is delivered. Facility Management is already done with bricks. SAAS Software As A Service - All procedures/processes are delivered in more common business known as &quotFranchise&quot, just daily operations is your responsibility
Question: If you let doing all the -AAS working for you, what is left to your &quotcore business&quot?

guarding

bricks

clicks

Can be planned in advance like water-fronts

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The Client is taken his own planning understanding risks

For the client it is something very difficult very technical

The security of all like a guarded entrance is one of te last things to do. It is a requirement I almost forgot to make a figure in comparing all these steps to building.

The contractor for the building normally does not these steps. It will be handled sepately

Building has been practiced for many years, thousands of years. Still failures are made.
They can be more or less not harming (Pisa Tacoma) or frightens as the ground to build on is disappearing.
They are exceptions in this world, getting much attention.

IT architecture exists just a couple of years. The failures are more common in the rapid evolvement within IT
There is a lot to do to get it to the same level as working with bricks.

Planning & project

Budget failures are not a technical failure.
They are caused by other factors.
Status and project management, eg:

Cost overrun is common in infrastructure, building, and technology projects.

Underestimating the craft of Nature, still requiring and needing the protection to humans, combined with the status and project challenges:
Katrina Political effects. Delta works The budgets are kept out of this history, they were changed continously.

What could possibly go wrong with this kind of approach? The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE)is a federal agency and a major Army command made up of some 38,000 civilian and military personnel,
making it the world's largest public engineering, design and construction management agency.

As innovation can get blocked. Better and cheaper approaches are eliminated. In the end the whole budget of a plan can be spent and gone just to management overhead.